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Island of the Winds

0.0(0)2025—1

On the outskirts of Taipei, there is a leprosy sanatorium built by the Japanese occupiers in 1930 to seclude thousands of patients and maintain sanitary conditions on the land. For the last two decades, Taiwanese authorities have decided to turn the sanatorium into a museum to commemorate the history of leprosy medicine. However, the sanatorium has slowly been destroyed due to constant construction that has overwhelmed the remaining aged patients. To cope with this struggle, they protest and build landscape models with their gnarled hands representing their accurate memories and experiences. They continue to fight against the authorities’ efforts to erase the history of segregation and discrimination and have not given up.

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Released
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Language
Mandarin

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Director

Hsu Ya-ting

Produced in

Taiwan, Japan, France

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival14 Oct 2025
    • PremiereTaiwan Film Festival in Scotland9 Nov 2025
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereTaiwan Film Festival Berlin26 Sept 2026
  • TaiwanTW

    • PremiereTaipei Film Festival23 Jun 2025
    • PremiereWomen Make Waves International Film Festival18 Oct 2025
    • PremiereTaipei Golden Horse Film Festival9 Nov 2025
    • Theatrical5 Dec 2025

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Island of the Winds was released on 5 December 2025.

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